I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
Use the smallest word that does the job.
Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen to a young man it would almost certainly happen late at night.